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Nil Sari

Professor Nil Sari (Akdeniz) has been the head of the History of Medicine and Ethics Department of Istanbul University at the Cerrahpasha Medical School since 1983. She published extensively on various subjects related to the Islamic medicine in general, and of medical knowledge and practices in the Ottoman Empire and in modern Turkey in particular, including Holistic medicine, the influence of Islam on Medical practice and women dealing with health during the Ottoman period. She has won many prestigious prizes including the medal of the International Society for the History of Paediatric Surgery.